Meet the winners of the 7th IMPA Journalism Award

Math category:

1st place

“In search of true randomness”

Leonardo Caparroz – Super interesting

2nd place

“Calculating the Future”

Andrea Freitas da Conceição – Canal Meio

3rd place

Infinitesimal calculus: When mathematics tamed infinity

Maria Clara Rossini – Super interesting

Honorable mentions:

“Entropy: the limit that the universe imposes on the compression of files“, by Bruno Vaiano, from Superinteressante and “News, purchases and neo-nazism: the sites in Brazil that teach Portuguese to AIs”, by Bruno Romani, Marcos Muller and Lucas Almeida, from Estado de S. Paulo.

Science Communication Category:

1st place

“Clinical studies with Car-T cells bring hope to Brazilian cancer patients“

Fantástico – TV Globo

Mônica Reolom, Ana Carolina Raimundi, Gleison Barreto, Eduardo González, Lúcio Rodrigues, Emílio Mansur, Francisco Gomes, André Nascimento, Felipe Peixe, Gentil Junior, Gutemberg Benites, Marcos Barcarrollo, André Alaniz and Fernanda Chaves Reis.

2nd place

“The Amazon decolonizes its past”

Talita Bedinelli – Kapok

3rd place

“Project drills underground in the Amazon to study climate evolution in the forest”

Adriana Farias – Folha de S.Paulo

Honorable mentions:

“The Terror of Dams”by Meghie de Sousa Rodrigues and Pedro Ferreira de Belo, from the Ciência Suja Podcast, and the “Chip Wars” by Gian Luigi Sofio and Felipe Tomaz Santana, from TV Globo’s Fantástico.

About the IMPA Journalism Award

The initiative aims to stimulate and recognize journalistic works of excellence that bring Mathematics, Science and Technology closer to society. Divided into two categories, Mathematics and Scientific Dissemination, the contest will pay a total of R$ 36 thousand to the winners. Reports on TVs, newspapers, magazines, websites, radios and podcasts can participate.

The prizes are identical in both categories: R$10 thousand for 1st place, R$ 5 thousand for 2nd and R$3 thousand for 3rd place.

This year the award ceremony will be on Saturday, September 7, at the National Mathematics Festival (FestMat), an event promoted by IMPA for the general public, which will take place between September 5 and 7 at Marina da Glória, in Rio de Janeiro. With the theme “Mathematics is Innovation”, FestMat wants to show how science is behind technological advances, in addition to bringing discipline closer to children and also adults.

DATES:

Registration: May 20th to June 27th

Period of publication or exhibition of the reports: July 1, 2023 and June 23, 2024.

Awards Ceremony: September 7 at the National Math Festival in Rio de Janeiro.

For questions and clarifications, contact IMPA’s Communication Office:

E-mail: imprensa@impa.br

Phone: (21) 2529-5172